I slowly watched him disappear

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 "I slowly watched him disappear" is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, and the libraries at the Rhode Island School of Design and Sta

"I slowly watched him disappear" is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, and the libraries at the Rhode Island School of Design and Stanford University.

 "To say that the United States has become deeply militarized is to posit, in part, that fantasies about warrior masculinity are ubiquitous. They are, and “I slowly watched him disappear” affirms that you don’t have to travel far to find their vestig

"To say that the United States has become deeply militarized is to posit, in part, that fantasies about warrior masculinity are ubiquitous. They are, and “I slowly watched him disappear” affirms that you don’t have to travel far to find their vestiges. The Marines Martial Arts poster taped to Sharrod’s bedroom wall, one of at least four Marines Corps placards that decorate his room, features a Marine in uniform punching the air, and a promise of fortification articulated in its inscription: “On Our Team You Develop Your Mind, Your Body And Your Spirit.” The military-as-organization and its defenders on the left and the right portray military masculine status as an ideal that all citizens should emulate. In turn, civilians buy into the mythology, even (especially?) those who decline to enlist.